Chris Yuen
@ChrisCYuenCommunity Development Director at the City of Essex Junction, VT Former Transit Planner at Jarrett Walker + Associates Opinions are my own.
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Some inaction on road safety in USA can be attributed to Fed. Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, w/ standards on everything from lane striping to traffic signals. It's getting an update for better bike/ ped protections, and for AVs. Website still looks like year 2000
These charts really highlights how inconsequential congestion is as a contributor to climate emissions. 1st chart shows changes in CO2 are totally uncorrelated with changes in congestion (using TTI index). 2nd and 3rd show near-perfect correlation with hours and miles of travel.
One of the most successful bike lanes in all of Canada or the US...and Kirby-Yung buys into ridiculous arguments that its bad for climate because cars should go vroom vroom easier and asks about re-dedicating it to car use. Just shocking.
Have a pet theory that VT has structural issues causing it to over-invest in transportation infrastructure, especially rural infrastructure, while under investing in residential construction.
Transportation professionals, do you have a good example of a metric used in alternatives analysis to capture pedestrian inconvenience / delay at big intersections with many lanes where you press the button wait forever? @dongho_chang @schmangee @nickfalbo
“Each additional need that is met by the network strengthens it, and allows it to grow, meet more needs. “ @denisagar piece on what can be achieved w abundant network of intercity transit designed to serve a diversity of users, traveling for diff reasons: capitaldaily.ca/news/opinion-v…
1/ Someone once asked my how Lausanne, a tiny city of 140k in a metro area of 400k inhabitants, can get such high transit usage (800 trips/year per inh.) and even boast a metro. After touring the city's network, I can really say the answer is: pragmatism and restraint.
Good @nytimes article on the freeway debates in my home town, Portland. Our city and state have done great things, and often it did them first, but it's so nice not to be viewed as "Perfect Portland" anymore. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Fine words from the @VP, but the problem of poor bus frequency isn't about infrastructure funding. It's about operations funding.
We all know what it means to miss a bus by just one minute—being at least an hour late to work, school, or visiting family during the holidays. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will invest in our public transit systems to ensure folks can get where they’re going.
Sometimes I wonder how city planners and engineers can put up signs like this and declare victory with a straight face . This is Edith blvd in Albuquerque, a designated bike route.
broke: a regular boring roof woke: a solar roof bespoke: a roof deck so awesome it convinces people to stay in the city rather than moving to the suburbs thereby reducing their carbon footprint by over 50%
How many more flood videos will go viral before we stop spending 80% of federal transportation funding on highways?
Put 👏🏼 housing 👏🏼 on 👏🏼 top 👏🏼 of👏🏼 everything
Vancouver ... demonstrating that you can put housing on top of just about anything.
Like its cousin “jaywalking,” “loitering” is a fake word. There is no such thing as “loitering.” But if we’re going to insist that loitering is a thing, we should do everything we can to encourage it. Cities need much, much more loitering.
Homes can either be an appreciating asset or something we make enough of for everyone to live in, but not both.
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